. christie pulled a christie on dave last night. >> welcome to the show. >> i'm thrilled to be here. now you, how do you feel about me? >> i love you, dave. no, a love that i have a difficult time really explaining. a deep and abiding love. >> well, now, now we have a real problem. but i made jokes about you, not just one or two, not just ongoing here and there, intermittent, but -- >> i didn't know it was going to be this long. >> now wait a minute! >> that's funny. okay, now back to eric cantor, the powerful house republican who is trying to massage the republican message. dana bash joins us live from capitol hill. i bring up chris christie because he is sort of starting to redefine the republican message in his own way and maybe i thought eric cantor would take a page from the chris christie playbook. >> well, there were no danish, no doughnuts at our interview this morning but he is trying to redefine the message for sure, and that's what he's going to talk about in an interview later at a speech later today. as we speak, carol, he is talking about his new message idea to rank and file r